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Richard (Rich) Smith was born in 1965 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His musical interest began to show itself around his 14th year, when he began teaching himself to play the piano. Within a few years, he was regularly performing in the Salt Lake area and soon began composing his own material. His musical ability was noticed by a staff producer at Osmond Studios and Rich soon began working as an intern, interested in anything that anyone would teach him. His musical studies have taken him around the world. He has studied piano with Bonnie Winterton and Gladys Gladstone at the University of Utah; Francios Regnat and Elmer Hereema at Cal State, Northridge (where he was a member of the Northridge Piano Quartet and accompanist for the University Singers); and with Marta Immovilli in Venice, Italy. He has studied composition with Daniel Kestler at Cal State, Northridge, John Williams at Berklee College of Music, and Scott Lanvatter at the University of Utah. Rich was a staff member at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Ca, and at The Warner Bros. Studios, where he worked as a music editor under Dan Carlin. While at Warner Bros., he worked on such projects as Stephen Spielburg's Tiny Toons, Ghost, and Scenes From A Mall (with Woody Allen and Bette Midler). He has arranged and produced numerous albums, utilizing everything from full orchestra and choir to solo accoustic guitar. His production work for concert pianist David Glen Hatch netted a Pearl Award for Hatch in 1998. Currently Rich is working with Epilogue Records/EPI Masterworks, a new artist label formed as a sister label of Capital Records in 1964 and in 1969 taken over as the label for New England Talent artists. Epilogue Records now releases CD albums of N.E.T. emerging young artists and scholarship fund raising compilations of famous and not yet famous musicians. |
This Website updated for Richard W. Smith by New England Talent, Ltd. - 31 October 2009
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